6am: Not so gently awakened by the deep voice of a 15 year old man child who is informing me that I’m stupid. Why am I stupid? Because he has no clean clothes and no dry clothes. Why? Because I’m stupid and didn’t turn the dryer on so all of his clothes are sopping wet [...]
Posts Tagged ‘being a mom’
Domestic Engineering and Me…NOT A Match Made In Heaven Or Anywhere Else, For That Matter
November 17th, 2010 
admin Day to day domesticities are not my strong suit. At all. There is nothing about a pile of clothes in need of laundering or a toilet that needs the poop circles scrubbed away that makes me want to run home after dropping my son off to school and get down and dirty with cleaning chemicals. [...]
Because I’m A Mom
April 15th, 2010 admin Because I’m a mom, I don’t always get to do the things that I want to do. Because I’m a mom, I have to cancel plans due to sick kids. Or no babysitter. Or no school. Because I’m a mom, I don’t always get to spend money frivolously on myself. Because I’m a mom, life [...]
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Tags: being a mom, no babysitter, no help, not getting to do what i expected 
25 Comments »The One Where I Admit I May Be A Tad Bit Jealous Of The Ex-Wife. Keyword Is Tad.
October 30th, 2009 admin I am. A little. I’m big enough…and getting bigger…to admit it. I’m a teensy, weensy bit jealous of my husbands ex-wife. Why, you ask? And stop staring. It’s not polite. Because. She only has to deal with one meal a week where there is whining. And I don’t even think they whine for her. Because [...]
Posted in my life Tags: being a mom, ex-spouses, kids, no parental obligations, parenting, step kids 14 Comments »The Trouble With Being Mommy
October 16th, 2009 admin When my daughter is looking at me, big green eyes filling with tears, lips quivering and frowning. Because she is having a hard time with her tween-age life, sobbing that she wants to give up. I don’t know what to say to her that she will believe. Anything that will make her troubles get better [...]
Posted in crazy family, my life Tags: being a mom, middleschool aged kids, mom and children, raising children, tween angst, tween kids 12 Comments »No Mask Or Glasses Here, I Like My Me Time And That Means Without Kids
August 20th, 2009 admin I love them. I really do. They are darling. Everyone says so. Fairly well behaved. Except for the exceptions, of course. They are fun to be around, when they aren’t whining about boredom or the injustices of the rules. The enjoy each others company, except the one that had started it and the other that [...]
Posted in my life Tags: back to school, being a mom, kids, moms, moms need to be people too 20 Comments »
